Hi list, Can you look in to this? [root@centos67 loop]# cat file1 firstname1 firstname2 [root@centos67 loop]# cat file2 lastname1 lastname2 I need a OUTPUT like this *firstname1 lastname1firstname2 lastname2* But I try the below command , i get below output. what is the real command to get the above output [root@centos67 loop]# for line1 in $(cat file1 ); do for line2 in $(cat file2 ); do echo "$line1" "$line2";done;done; firstname1 lastname1 firstname1 lastname2 firstname2 lastname1 firstname2 lastname2 And also, I created a file3 like this [root@centos67 loop]# cat file3 firstname1 lastname1 firstname2 lastname2 How can I get the same OUTPUT ? *firstname1 lastname1firstname2 lastname2* if I try below command, i get the below output. [root@centos67 loop]# for i in $(cat file3);do echo $i;done; firstname1 lastname1 firstname2 lastname2 Could you pls help me to solve this ? THIS is very important to me. -- cat /etc/motd Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya http://www.theravadanet.net/ http://www.siyabas.lk/sinhala_how_to_install.html - Download Sinhala Fonts _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos